Pure Storage

Senior QA Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

April 1, 2016

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process involved three rounds:

One phone interview.
Two rounds of onsite interviews, initially with six people, followed by a session with two people.

I had a great experience talking with the interviewers and the recruiter. I was made to feel very much at ease and not stressed.

It felt good being challenged with technical questions that were relevant to real applications, rather than just puzzles or random textbook questions. They were not picky on code syntax, as long as the approach was right.

The interviewers helped and prompted whenever I had to think through a problem, without being intimidating. The process was very technical to assess me, with some personality questions included. Everything seemed like a discussion.

Overall, it was a really good interviewing experience.

Questions

How to set up a test configuration given a scenario. How to look at logs in case of failures. Define test cases given a scenario. Questions to assess handling technical situations.

Unix commands that are used typically, data structures and algorithms, recursion, etc., object-oriented concepts and implementation.

A few questions based on my experience.

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Interview Statistics

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Pure Storage's interview process for their Senior QA Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Pure Storage's Senior QA Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.

Pure Storage Work Experiences

Great engineers to work with

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

November 27, 2020

Pros: Great engineers to work with. Freedom to choose different projects and move around teams.

Cons: If you are new to C++, the codebase will be a steep learning curve, especially given that there is hardly any documentation.

Great engineers to work with

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

November 27, 2020

Pros: Great engineers to work with. Freedom to choose different projects and move around teams.

Cons: If you are new to C++, the codebase will be a steep learning curve, especially given that there is hardly any documentation.

It’s been fun

Solutions Architect • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: A lot of latitude, a lot of good people.

Cons: Layers and layers of management. Hired enough EMC folks for the taint to come through.

It’s been fun

Solutions Architect • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: A lot of latitude, a lot of good people.

Cons: Layers and layers of management. Hired enough EMC folks for the taint to come through.

Great Place to Work

Software Manager • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Pure has an excellent culture and great people, which is what keeps me excited to be working here. Building a distributed system in a self-contained box is no small feat, and we're solving new problems in interesting ways as well as defining new segments in the storage market. It's challenging, fun, and rewarding.

Cons: The company is growing and markets are changing, and the way we used to do business previously won't work in the future. We will have to continuously adapt as we grow and face new challenges, and it won't always be easy. But looking at how successfully we adapted to the pandemic and the hurdles it brought, I'm optimistic in our future.

Great Place to Work

Software Manager • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Pure has an excellent culture and great people, which is what keeps me excited to be working here. Building a distributed system in a self-contained box is no small feat, and we're solving new problems in interesting ways as well as defining new segments in the storage market. It's challenging, fun, and rewarding.

Cons: The company is growing and markets are changing, and the way we used to do business previously won't work in the future. We will have to continuously adapt as we grow and face new challenges, and it won't always be easy. But looking at how successfully we adapted to the pandemic and the hurdles it brought, I'm optimistic in our future.

Great engineers to work with

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

November 27, 2020

Pros: Great engineers to work with. Freedom to choose different projects and move around teams.

Cons: If you are new to C++, the codebase will be a steep learning curve, especially given that there is hardly any documentation.

4.0
Great engineers to work with
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
November 27, 2020
Pros: Great engineers to work with. Freedom to choose different projects and move around teams.
Cons: If you are new to C++, the codebase will be a steep learning curve, especially given that there is hardly any documentation.

It’s been fun

Solutions Architect • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: A lot of latitude, a lot of good people.

Cons: Layers and layers of management. Hired enough EMC folks for the taint to come through.

3.0
It’s been fun
Solutions Architect • Former Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
April 15, 2022
Pros: A lot of latitude, a lot of good people.
Cons: Layers and layers of management. Hired enough EMC folks for the taint to come through.

Great Place to Work

Software Manager • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Pure has an excellent culture and great people, which is what keeps me excited to be working here. Building a distributed system in a self-contained box is no small feat, and we're solving new problems in interesting ways as well as defining new segments in the storage market. It's challenging, fun, and rewarding.

Cons: The company is growing and markets are changing, and the way we used to do business previously won't work in the future. We will have to continuously adapt as we grow and face new challenges, and it won't always be easy. But looking at how successfully we adapted to the pandemic and the hurdles it brought, I'm optimistic in our future.

5.0
Great Place to Work
Software Manager • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
July 15, 2021
Pros: Pure has an excellent culture and great people, which is what keeps me excited to be working here. Building a distributed system in a self-contained box is no small feat, and we're solving new problems in interesting ways as well as defining new segments in the storage market. It's challenging, fun, and rewarding.
Cons: The company is growing and markets are changing, and the way we used to do business previously won't work in the future. We will have to continuously adapt as we grow and face new challenges, and it won't always be easy. But looking at how successfully we adapted to the pandemic and the hurdles it brought, I'm optimistic in our future.

Pure Storage Interview Questions

Valid Square

Determine if four given points in a 2D plane form a valid square. A valid square has four equal sides and four right angles.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Palindromic Substrings

Find the number of palindromic substrings within a given string. Consider each single character and repeated characters as a substring.

StringsDynamic Programming

Design Skiplist

Implement a Skiplist data structure that supports efficient search, insertion, and deletion of elements. A Skiplist is a probabilistic data structure with multiple levels of linked lists.

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